Chinese telecom network vendor Huawei introduced a 200G photonic integrated device (PID) for case-shaped metro WDM equipment.
Unveiled at Next Generation Optical Networking Forum in Europe, the device will help accelerate WDM/OTN to the edge deployments, said Huawei.
Huawei said traditional case-shaped WDM equipment used at the network edge is unable to provide the required capacity to effectively offload tremendous traffic from the backbone. The launch of Huawei 200G PID is important because the planning and configuration of analog WDM signals is complex.
The centimeter-sized integrated PID chip can deliver higher capacity without the need for connecting a large number of pigtails between boards, and spares workload of planning and configuring parameters such as optical power, dispersion compensation, and signal-to-noise ratio.
Huawei said this empowers plug-and-play feature on edge WDM equipment, reducing deployment and maintenance costs and facilitating the WDM/OTN to the edge evolution.
The PID solution is currently available for Huawei’s case-shaped WDM equipment OSN 1800 V and can deliver 200 Gbit/s per fiber. Huawei is also working on a 400G PID solution.
